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Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 18th, 2015, 6:53 pm
by omicron
I have a ticket to a 0940 showing of The Force Awakens in IMAX 3D, but it's in the 3rd row of the theater.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 18th, 2015, 7:16 pm
by Space Tycoon
I myself could be watching SW as we speak.

However, I would have been consigned to the Outer Rim Territories. Whereas I would much rather be near the Galactic Centre. Seat-wise. Been there, done that.

So I'm innernetting Cineplex showtimes and locations, seeing nothing hopeful.

And then...it appears to me.

Just as a man in the desert, lost in his desperation and hopelessness, perceives in the distance a source of water... only this time, for real: one single seat in the centre of the IMAX, 3D showing, which amazingly no-one had claimed.

10 am Sunday in a distant suburb of Toronto named Oakville.

I'll take it. Kismet and all that.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 18th, 2015, 7:27 pm
by Space Tycoon
There's a pretty good strip club not too far away.

Not sure why I felt the need to add that.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 18th, 2015, 7:30 pm
by neglet
Waiting for my son to get home from college, then we'll see it together.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 5:30 pm
by Adam54
I'm weighing making my first viewing of the original trilogy before I go see the new one. I have a feeling it'd help?

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 6:44 pm
by Mal Shot First
Mayhap.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 8:03 pm
by neglet
Eh. I did, my son didn't. It's not like he doesn't already know what happens backwards and forwards.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 9:53 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Ah, what the hell. Let's experiment with Adam. You've gone this long without seeing the original trilogy. Why not go into The Force Awakens fresh and free of reference? You don't *need* to have seen the others. Let us know what it's like to see it without having seen the others first.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 10:01 pm
by Adam54
To be fair, I've seen Episode I and Episode III. I feel like I've probably seen the original trilogy in chunks over the years, but I have absolutely no memory of sitting down to watch the entirety of any of them.

Does that disqualify me for the experiment?

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 10:25 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Nah. You ought to do it. Do you some good. You won't be bogged down by over-familiarity with some of the callbacks.

You're hoping to get Dalty to see the seventh in the Fast/Furious franchise without his having seen all the ones leading up to it. Might as well do something similar, yourself, with the Star Wars franchise.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: December 22nd, 2015, 11:32 pm
by Adam54
Your logic checks out. I'll make it a priority.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 10th, 2016, 9:56 pm
by Adam54
The Swollen Goiter of God wrote:Ah, what the hell. Let's experiment with Adam. You've gone this long without seeing the original trilogy. Why not go into The Force Awakens fresh and free of reference? You don't *need* to have seen the others. Let us know what it's like to see it without having seen the others first.
I saw it last weekend, walked out when it was done and texted a friend "this is why movie theaters still exist."

It was such fun and I hope to go back at least one more time. There were some things I recognized as callbacks which I didn't fully understand, but it didn't matter. It was damn near a flawless film. Far beyond anything I'd expected going in.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 11th, 2016, 11:42 am
by Dalty
Tell that to KilliK!

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 11th, 2016, 3:40 pm
by Adam54
In English, Limey! Killik?

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 11th, 2016, 9:52 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
KilliK is an AICN Talkback frequenter. He mostly trolls.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 12th, 2016, 2:08 pm
by Dalty
He has a friend called Turd and another called Technoreaper.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 13th, 2016, 6:13 am
by Mal Shot First
Incidentally, those are also the names of his testicles.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 13th, 2016, 12:16 pm
by Dalty
KilliK and the Testicles.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 13th, 2016, 12:55 pm
by Mal Shot First
Killik! Killik! K-K-K-Killik and the Nads.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 13th, 2016, 1:13 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
I didn't read that in Elton John's voice. I read it in Moon Man's.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: January 13th, 2016, 3:23 pm
by Dalty
M-O-O-N spells KilliK.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: April 11th, 2016, 1:05 pm
by Jubbers
I withdrew from my doctoral program. I have only written a few pages, and it's hard to maintain my line of thought with the double stresses of work and Jubboiter.

So pretty damn down about that.

I hate my job, though, so I need some light at the end of the tunnel, so I've fixated on dream job number two: independent photographer. I know there are lots of things I don't know about things like studio lighting and such, so I enrolled in our local community college's photography a.f.a program as a part-time student (unlike Wash. U., they don't care how long it takes, so it's OK that I can only do one class at a time until such time that I'm liberated from my job.) Cost per semester for a single class is just slightly higher than what I was paying to be a doctoral candidate.

First up during the summer semester: a Photoshop class. Prepare yourselves.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: April 11th, 2016, 1:23 pm
by The Swollen Goiter of God
Sad Kafka.

Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: April 11th, 2016, 1:37 pm
by Jubbers
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Re: Current Mixed Feelings

Posted: April 11th, 2016, 1:39 pm
by Jubbers
He never fails to make me laugh.